9002419

Portable Electronic Apparatus

PublishedApril 7, 2015
Assigneenot available in USPTO data we have
InventorsMitsuru Satou
Technical Abstract

Patent Claims
21 claims

Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.

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1. A portable electronic apparatus comprising: a housing having at least a first face and first and second side faces rising from the first face; a display having at least a first side and a second side which is opposed to the first side; a touch panel that is stacked on the display and detects at least a distance to an indicator using an electric field; a first conductive member disposed at an end portion of the display along the first side; a second conductive member disposed at the end portion of the display along the second side; a third conductive member disposed along a bottom face of the display and electrically connected to the first conductive member; a fourth conductive member disposed along the bottom face of the display and electrically connected to the second conductive member; wherein at least the display, the third conductive member, and the fourth conductive member are accommodated in a concave portion configured by the first side face, the first face and the second side face; wherein, when the housing is gripped with a hand and the housing is distorted in a state that the indicator is spaced from the touch panel, at least the touch panel, the third conductive member, and the fourth conductive member are moved together with respect to the housing in a direction substantially parallel to at least the first face, thereby a relative positional relation among the touch panel, the third conductive member, and the fourth conductive member is maintained constant.

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2. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when the housing is gripped with a hand and the housing is distorted in a state that the indicator is spaced from the touch panel, at least the touch panel, the display, the first conductive member, the second conductive member, the third conductive member, and the fourth conductive member are moved together with respect to the housing in the direction substantially parallel to at least the first face, thereby a relative positional relation among the touch panel, the display, the first conductive member, the second conductive member, the third conductive member, and the fourth conductive member is maintained constant.

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3. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the third and fourth conductive members are electrically connected to each other.

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4. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein at least the third and fourth conductive members are secured to the display.

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5. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein at least the third and fourth conductive members are not secured to the first face.

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6. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first conductive member and the third conductive member are integrated and/or the second conductive member and the fourth conductive member are integrated.

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7. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the touch panel has at least the first side and the second side; and the portable electronic apparatus further comprises: fifth and sixth conductive members disposed at end portions of the touch panel along the first and second sides respectively, and electrically connected to the first and second conductive members respectively.

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8. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the first conductive member and the fifth conductive member are integrated and/or the second conductive member and the sixth conductive member are integrated.

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9. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the display is disposed at least between the first face and the touch panel.

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10. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the third and fourth conductive members are disposed at least between the display and the first face.

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11. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: a seventh conductive member disposed along the first face and having a planar shape, wherein the third conductive member, the seventh conductive member and the fourth conductive member are electrically connected to each other.

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12. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein at least part of the seventh conductive member overlaps at least part of the third conductive member and/or at least part of the seventh conductive member overlaps at least part of the fourth conductive member.

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13. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the overlapped portions of the seventh conductive member and the third conductive member and/or the overlapped portions of the seventh conductive member and the fourth conductive member have contact portions, which are elastic and conductive, and are of electrically connecting the seventh conductive member and the third conductive member and/or electrically connecting the seventh conductive member and the fourth conductive member.

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14. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the contact portions are movable between the seventh conductive member and the third conductive member and/or between the seventh conductive member and the fourth conductive member.

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15. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: an eighth conductive member disposed along the bottom face of the display and electrically connected to the third and fourth conductive members.

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16. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the third conductive member and the eighth conductive member are integrated and/or the fourth conductive member and the eighth conductive member are integrated.

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17. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the first face has a support unit that supports at least one of the first, second and eighth conductive members.

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18. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth conductive members comprises least one of metal and graphite.

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19. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the housing has at least a second face which is nearly parallel with the first face and is positioned on the opposite side of the concave portion on the basis of the first face.

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20. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 19 , wherein a battery is installed between the first face and the second face.

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21. The portable electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second side faces can be gripped with the hand of user.

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Publication Date

April 7, 2015

Inventors

Mitsuru Satou

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